[OE-core] [PATCH] automake: Fix issue with tar configure failing with large UID/GIDs

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 03:14 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> +-_am_tools='gnutar m4_if([$1], [ustar], [plaintar]) pax cpio none'
> ++_am_tools='gnutar m4_if([$1], [ustar], [plaintar]) cpio pax none'

Have you discussed that with upstream?  If not, are you confident that
preferring cpio will not simply mean that we are swapping one deficiency
for another?

> +Index: automake-1.11.1/Makefile.in
> +===================================================================
> +--- automake-1.11.1.orig/Makefile.in
> ++++ automake-1.11.1/Makefile.in
> +@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/a
> + 	$(top_srcdir)/m4/missing.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/mkdirp.m4 \
> + 	$(top_srcdir)/m4/options.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/runlog.m4 \
> + 	$(top_srcdir)/m4/sanity.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/strip.m4 \
> +-	$(top_srcdir)/m4/substnot.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/tar.m4 \
> ++	$(top_srcdir)/m4/substnot.m4 \
> + 	$(top_srcdir)/configure.ac
> + am__configure_deps = $(am__aclocal_m4_deps) $(CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES) \
> + 	$(ACLOCAL_M4)

Can you explain why this hunk is necessary?

> +do_configure () {
> +	touch ${S}/Makefile.in
> +	autotools_do_configure
> +}

... and this one?

Also, your patch is missing a Signed-off-by line.  See:

http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Commit_Patch_Message_Guidelines#Patch_Headers_and_Commit_Messages

p.